Pasture
דֹּ֫בֶרStrong’s H1699dover (do-ver)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Dover is the Hebrew word usually translated “like own pasture their”, “word” and “pasture its”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.”
Meaning
- Pasture
- Word, speaking
How it's translated
- like own pasture their 1
- and the word 1
- pasture its 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 1
- Jeremiah 1
- Micah 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Jeremiah 5:13And the prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in them: thus shall it be done unto them.
- Micah 2:12I will surely assemble, O Jacob, all of thee; I will surely gather the remnant of Israel; I will put them together as the sheep of Bozrah, as the flock in the midst of their fold: they shall make great noise by reason of the multitude of men.
Hebrew dictionary
דֹּ֫בֶר dover · pasture
pasture
דִּבֵּר dibber · statement
word, speaking
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “pasture” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
P'ASTURE, noun
[Latin pasco, pastum, to feed.]
- Grass for the food of cattle; the food of cattle taken by grazing.
- Ground covered with grass appropriated for the food or cattle.
- Human culture; education. [Not used.]
All definitions and other forms of “pasture”
P'ASTURE, verb transitive
To feed on grass or to supply grass for food. We apply the word to persons, as the farmer pastures fifty oxen; or to ground, as the land will pasture fifty oxen.
P'ASTURE, verb intransitive
To graze; to take food by eating grass from the ground.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.